Education for social and economic cooperation. Communal and community-based education. Toward a broader educational vision. Black history education and collective racial consciousness

The Cold War and Civil Rights Movement. The coming of the Cold War. The decline of progressive education and the rise of the Cold War. Du Bois and the coming of the modern Civil Rights Movement. From Brown v. Board and King to Ghana. Septima Clark : echoes of a Du Boisian pedagogy

Education for liberation. Freedom to learn, critical thinking, and basic skills. From the talented tenth to the guiding hundredth

Afrocentric, pan-African, and global education. Education in The black flame

Conclusion : Du Bois's legacy for the education of African peoples and the world community. Du Bois's legacy for African American education. A Du Boisian vision.

Publisher's Summary

This is the first published, comprehensive interpretation of Du Bois' educational thought. Historian Derrick P. Alridge moves beyond the overly discussed "debates" between Booker T. Washington and Du Bois to provide fresh insights into Du Bois' educational thinking. He draws on a plethora of published and unpublished primary sources to illuminate Du Bois' educational thought on a wide variety of issues, such as women and education, black leadership, black identity, civil rights, black higher education, community education, and academic achievement. (source: Nielsen Book Data)